More than 300 comment on David Kolb's column on the Second Amendment

AP FILE PHOTOThe casket of Matthew McQuinn is carried from Maiden Lane Church as family and friends pay their final respects on July 28, 2012, in Springfield, Ohio. McQuinn shielded his girlfriend, Samantha Yowler, from gunfire during the shooting at the Aurora, Colo., movie theater on July 20.

Inspired by the shooting in a Colorado movie theater, which resulted in the deaths of 12 people and injured more than 50, columnist David Kolb took on the Second Amendment this week. More than 300 people commented on his column.

As such, our nation is condemned to suffer the next outrage in
which a deranged personality with a lunatic grudge decides to accumulate
an arsenal that would embarrass a small police department and go
hunting for humans.

meershaum believes the Second Amendment is necessary to maintain the other amendments:

I would remind Mr. Kolb, that it is the Second Amendment that protects his First Amendment. That's the truth.

nortondoonzy agrees with Kolb that no tragedy will be horrible enough to change gun laws:

The
excellent and insightful column of Mr. Kolb has once again drawn out
the crazies and the paranoids who live among us, all armed to the teeth
by the way, so that the rest of us can take in the immensity of the
danger that ignorance, fear and latent fascism pose to our democracy.
No murder, no atrocity, no holocaust, will ever prove sickening enough
to change the minds of these guns-at-all-costs lunatics.

Thank
God for the NRA, all gun owners should be members. They're not always
correct, but nobody out there even comes close to what the NRA has done
to protect and expand your Second Amendment rights from leftist hacks like
Kolb who wish to take those rights away. Shame on you Mr. Kolb, this
country was founded from the barrel of a gun, and by guns have we been
protected from the tyranny of other nations over the centuries, and by
the barrel of a gun do free-born Americans maintain their freedom, shame
on you. If you don't like our Constitution, you are free to leave and
move to another nation. A freedom, I might add, also maintained by the
barrel of a gun. Try packing up and leaving from a "gun-free" nation
like North Korea, you clearly have no clue what you're talking of, just
more leftist talking points.

Fenster101 blames the media for giving attention to shooters, claiming that is what they want:

How long would it
have taken the Theater Shooter to prepare a chemical weapon or a bomb
instead of using guns. These guns were used because they were
convenient. This guy was nearly a doctor of science. A bomb would have
not presented a problem for this guy. So, he painted up his hair,
and did what would garner himself the most press and recognition. He
didn't fight with police afterwards. Gave up without incident. Because
Mr. Kolb and the rest of the so called journalists made him famous. Perhaps we should outlaw journalists, because without the Kolbs of this world, he would not have had a reason to do what he did.

Wrong
Fenster, Mr Kolb did nothing to make "him famous". The evil act that
the shooter committed made him infamous, all by himself. Given a set of
circumstances, even the most upstanding person in society can break and
commit a crime. They are differentiated only by the tools they use in
the commission their crime.

How's changing/deleting the Second Amendment going to
change anything when we have our OWN government officials releasing
thousands of weapons into the hands of dangerous people so they can in
turn kill US!